Training Times

Web Accessibility Training and Tutorial

In August of last year, I contacted Jim Thatcher about using his online Web Accessibility tutorial as the basis for an instructor-led Web accessibility class. He was interested and went about updating his tutorial as it was a bit outdated. In mid-October, he let me know that he had finished his updates with this note:

I had figured 100 hours – 98. I am so sick of it I could scream!

Anyone who has written courseware can understand the desire. It starts out fun, quickly gets tedious, then frustrating and by the end infuriating. Like with software, when you’re 90% finished, you just have the other 90% to go.

Anyway, after Jim finished his edits, we converted his XHTML to our specific XHTML format and handed it off to Debbie Fierst of Logical Imagination who does a lot of training for us. Deb tech edited the tutorial, modified the style some for classroom delivery, filled out some sections, and added demos and exercises. Version 1 of the course is now complete and we are offering our first class next week for a private group in Canada. We will be offering the class publicly March 3-5 (register here).

We also now have our own Web Accessibility Tutorial, which, like all of our tutorials, is freely available to the public. That’s you! Enjoy!